![]() ![]() ![]() Her illustrations are unique, using layers of colour pencil to build a more full & finely detailed finished image. ![]() Her tales of adventure and discovery are both heartwarming and fun, captivating the imaginations of children and adults alike. Inspired by a childhood teddy bear given to her by her grandmother, Jane has written and illustrated more than 20 picture books featuring Old Bear. Jane continued to nurture her passion through adulthood and studied illustration and design, later becoming an Art teacher and settling down with her husband Ivan and their 3 children Owen, Alison & Ralph. Publication date 1993 Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics Old Bear Stories, Jane Hissey, PPickwick. When she wasn’t doing this she would spend days at a time sitting in her favorite tree, reading the likes of Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton. Jane Hissey's Old Bear And Friends (1993 UK VHS) by Pickwick Video. Her holidays were spent wandering fields and lanes, conjuring up fantastical worlds with pencil and sketchbook. First published in 1986, it later became the inspiration for BAFTA award winning TV series Old Bear Stories.Īs a child growing up in Norfolk, Jane developed a love for writing and drawing. ![]() Recognized in both publishing and TV, Jane Hissey is best known for her children’s book series Old Bear & Friends. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is quirky and so smart! He is a pretty famous author with a series of books with a large following and movie deals. But he worked himself into my heart and I fell so in love with him. I will be honest, I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Beau. ![]() Oh and also teach him how to not be boyfriend material. He never expected his younger brother’s best friend, Beau, to offer him a place to stay by keeping the house clean, fed, and fixing things for him. As someone his age I totally related to how hard it must have been to pick up and start over. Payne is 40, finds himself divorced and needs a job. He ends up back in his hometown and on his brother’s couch. Payne finds himself single and needing a change of scenery after his divorce. ![]() And shocked, and knew immediately I wasn’t getting any sleep because I was not putting this book down! I do NOT want to ruin a single thing about this book for anyone. Saxon James does a great job of pulling readers in, and this book is no exception. ![]() If you enjoy a steamy MM romance with lots of heart Saxon James needs to be on your TBR list! To say we all have been counting down the days is an understatement. Author Saxon James, has been teasing her fans for a while about her new series, The Divorced Mens Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The series' first omnibus, DEADLY TRIO, appeared on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and all the books have made appearances, often at #1, on Kindle bestseller lists. UNTRUE BLUE is the seventh book in the ongoing Lord & Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series. As Tony probes these seemingly unsolvable cases, he draws closer to a shocking truth-and a dangerous reckoning. Before her death, Gulls was working on three cold cases: a kept woman hurled out the window of her fourth-floor love nest, a uni student who drowned in the Thames, and a retired detective's drug-addicted son found dead under a tree. And when Paul calls in Tony to assist with the investigation, they turn up more questions than answers. When the body of Tony's former protege, DC Amelia Gulls, is found murdered in her flat, suspicion immediately falls on her boyfriend, DC Sean Kincaid. But inside Scotland Yard, the institution Tony served for so many years, something is very wrong. Wellegrave House is restored and the Hetheridges are back where they belong, in the heart of Mayfair. ![]() His wife, Kate, is on bedrest for her final month of pregnancy, and his friend DI Deepal "Paul" Bhar's firstborn, a darling baby girl, has already arrived. You sense it, don’t you?”įor Lord Anthony Hetheridge, this wet April should be full of promise. Like looking at the skyline and seeing Elizabeth Tower on her head. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Peterson offers twelve new principles to guide readers towards a more courageous, truthful and meaningful life. ![]() In times of instability and suffering, Peterson reminds us that there are sources of strength on which we can all draw: insights borrowed from psychology, philosophy, and humanity’s greatest myths and stories. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality – order and chaos – and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Now in this much-anticipated sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. ![]() ![]() celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man. With his cancer in remission, all he wants is to get back to his normal life. must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter, but even once their basic needs are met, they encounter plenty of other obstacles - including the possibility, as the days turn to weeks and then months, that T.J.'s cancer could return. In this runaway New York Times bestseller, a harrowing near-death experience brings together an English teacher and her student as they struggle to survive on a desert island.Sixteen-year-old T.J. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. He's almost seventeen and if having had cancer wasn't bad enough, he now has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue essays - instead of his friends.Īnna and T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. Reading the novella Uncharted is optional. Callahan at his family's holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island trumps the library any day. On the Island Series 1 primary work 2 total works On the Island is a stand alone novel. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Tracey Garvis Graves is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fiction. ![]() ![]() I originally thought they would be mysteries, but they're not really, although usually there is something odd going on that Isabel is trying to sort out. ![]() I have loved them all and will be listening to the rest of them, as well. I'm currently listening to book 5 in this series. Should he go on anyway? What would you do? Maybe go back to what worked? Or plod on for whatever reason? Such a quandary he must be in. He also knows of his readers' response to this new series. So what's he to do? If he pays attention to the reviews, he knows of his own success with Botswana. It's not the same feeling transposed in a new place. I was curious then, when I read that the next one was actually going to be a whole new, totally different series. It was the feeling of it all that mattered most, and I would read the next one if it is written. It was all the characters, the new and the renewed. It wasn't the plot of each that mattered. ![]() When I think back through all those books it's hard to distinguish one from another. Her voice, her pronunciation, her narration was music. The narrator cemented all that came before. It was even released before the print version, which astonished the bookseller. When I was browsing in a bookstore and came upon the last, The Full Cupboard of Life on audio CD, I bought it immediately. I read the next and the next and the next. I read The Number One Ladies Detective Agency and I was hooked. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity-and thus his own-and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s-among them disease, starvation, and an impending war-was indeed the safer choice for their family. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.īrianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. ![]() Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. ![]() ![]() but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elon Musk… Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is an in-depth, extensively-researched, and balanced biography by Ashlee Vance, a well-known business and technology columnist who has written for the Economist, BusinessWeek, and the New York Times.ĭescribed as the Thomas Edison or the Iron Man of our times, Musk is painted as an eccentric industrialist – both inventor and business man – with insanely big vision, the impressive capacity to deal with stress, and the often jarring but necessary capability to squeeze the most out of his people. ![]() ![]() Jaqueline Rogers has been a professional children's book illustrator for more than twenty years and has worked on nearly one hundred children's books. Henry Huggins Series 6 primary works 9 total works Series featuring a young boy named Henry and his family, pets, and friends. Her characters, including Beezus and Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, have delighted children for generations. Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Beverly Cleary - Set of 10 Books (Ramona, Ralph Mouse, Henry Huggins). Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. ![]() ![]() Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. Henry Huggins has been wishing for some excitement in his life. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is, however, brave and intelligent and excels in other hamster princess skills, like checkers and fractions. Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not like ordinary princesses who are known for trailing around the palace looking ethereal and sighing a lot. Gr 3-5-From the creator of the "Dragonbreath" series (Dial) comes a new fairy tale heroine in the form of a hamster. Perfect for fans of Babymouse and Chris Colfer's Land of Stories, this laugh-out-loud new comic hybrid series will turn everything you thought you knew about princesses on its head. And so begins a grand life of adventure with her trusty riding quail, Mumfrey.until her twelfth birthday arrives and the curse manifests in a most unexpected way. One day, though, Harriet's parents tell her of the curse that a rat placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's twelve and fall into a deep sleep.įor Harriet, this is most wonderful news: It means she's invincible until she's twelve! After all, no good curse goes to waste. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. ![]() Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious new comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath ![]() ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() |